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Forensic architecture : violence at the threshold of detectability / Eyal Weizman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weizman, Eyal, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forensic sciences.
- Forensic anthropology.
- Human rights.
- Architecture--Political aspects.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages) : color illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction. At the threshold of detectability
- Negative positivism
- Toward a forensic architecture
- Drone vision
- Visual extraterritorialization
- Pattern of drone strikes
- Under the veil of resolution
- The architecture of memory
- Part one. What is forensic architecture?
- Cracks; lines of least resistance
- Conflict surveyors
- Staro Sajmište: the inverted horizon
- Forensis
- Counterforensics
- A knock on the roof
- Engaged objectivity
- White phosphorous
- The forensic turn
- The era of the witness
- Saydnaya: inside a Syrian tortyre prison
- Forensic aesthetics
- Image space
- Before and after
- Locating air strikes in Syria
- Abu Rahma: from video to virtual modeling
- Patterns
- Counterpatterns
- Field causality
- Guatemala: environmental violence
- The landscape against the state
- The truth in ruins
- Part two. Counterforensics in Palestine: the forensic dilemma
- Architecture against architects
- Political forms and forces
- "Counter-Cartography"
- Precedents
- The pyramids of Gaza
- Ruins in inverse
- Lawfare
- The Nakba Day killing
- Intersections
- Hannibal in Rafah
- Rafah, Black Friday, August 1, 2014
- The timeline
- The prisoner's dilemma
- Hannibal unleashed
- Air: nephanalysis of bomb clouds
- Subsoil: the underground manhunt
- To kill a dead man
- Meanwhile... Postscript: trial as denial
- Part three. Ground truths
- "A tribe against a state"
- The aridity line
- The conflict shoreline
- Meteorological traces
- Negev settlements, vegetation, and precipitation
- The Bedouin Nakba
- The politics of drought
- Plant vigor as a political sensor
- Al-'Araqīb in 1998, 2002, 2008, 2014
- Colonialism and climate change
- The climate of the Naqab's history
- The testimony of the weather
- Orientalist meteorology
- The earth photograph
- Military archaeology
- Life at the threshold of detectability
- postscript: the slow violence of the "split second".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781935408178 (electronic bk.)
- 1935408178 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90104901928
- 99972637172
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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